And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

There's nothing as real as money.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.

I miss those times when I hadn't a clue.

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized there were others like me.

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

People first, then money, then things.